Clapsaddle v. State

CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

In this appeal, we are asked to decide the validity of a search warrant that contains, in the description section of the warrant, a very particular and lengthy description of the apartment to be searched, but also contains, in the command and probable cause sections of the warrant, three references to the place to be searched as a “vehicle.” For the following reasons, we conclude that under the limited circumstances of this case, the warrant was valid, and that the accompanying search and discovery of cocaine was properly not suppressed at trial.

On December 11, 1987,…